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EU tees up more sanctions against Russia
A series of fast-developing international crises – in Ukraine, Gaza and Iraq – will preoccupy foreign ministers from the European Union’s 28 member states at a meeting in Brussels today. The meeting will begin with talks on the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine on Thursday (17 July) – foreign...
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[Ticker] Steinmeier wants EU to ‘increase pressure’ on Russia
German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday said Russia so far has not used its influence on Ukrainian separatists to treat with dignity the bodies found in the wreckage of the Malaysia airplane and to grant access to international investigators. “We will have to increase the pressure,” Steinmeier said. …read more...
[Ticker] EU ambassadors in emergency meeting on Ukraine
The ambassadors of the 28 EU countries are set to meet in Brussels Monday at 17h30 in a special session to prepare possible further sanctions on Russia, to be decided by foreign ministers on Tuesday. The meeting has been called in the wake of the Malaysia airplane crash in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] German politicians criticise France’s warship deal with Russia
Roderich Kiesewetter, head of the Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee, has criticised France’s plan to deliver a warship to Russia in October. “An export of the French Mistral to Russia would be exactly the wrong signal,” he told Handelsblatt. Karl-Georg Wellmann, head of the Bundestag’s Germany/Ukraine MP group,...
[Ticker] Dutch inspectors arrive at Ukraine crash site
A Dutch team arrived at the Malaysia Airlines crash site in eastern Ukraine Monday and started the identification of victims, Spiegel Online reports. A spokesman for the pro-Russia separatists believed to be responsible for shooting down the plane said they are cooperating after Russian President Putin told them to. …read more Source:...
EU under pressure to broaden Russia sanctions
The US and the UK are putting pressure on the EU to impose tougher sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Malaysian Airlines disaster. …read more Source:...
[Opinion] Putin’s real war
How many people – whether Ukrainian or non-Ukrainian – have to die, before the West faces up to the realities of Putin’s war? …read more Source:...
Merkel: Russia partly responsible for Ukraine crash
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Russia must acknowledge its share of responsibility in the Ukraine airplane disaster. …read more Source:...
75% of flights continued flying over Ukraine after warning
Despite a series of escalating flight height restrictions by Ukraine over eastern Ukraine, 75% of flights which use the route continued to fly over the combat area before yesterday’s crash, according to high-level European aviation sources. On 1 July, Ukraine set a restriction over its two eastern provinces, saying that no passenger plane...
[Ticker] ‘Too early’ to say how Ukraine crash will impact EU foreign policy
An EU diplomat noted Friday it is “too early” to say if the Ukraine air crash, allegedly caused by a Russian-supplied missile, will result in tougher sanctions, e.g. an arms embargo, on Russia. “We are still at the stage of handling the consular aspects of the incident”, the source said. …read more Source:...
